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Definition of supplant in English: supplantverb səˈplɑːntsəˈplænt [with object]Supersede and replace. 取代，代替 domestic production has been supplanted by imports and jobs have been lost Example sentencesExamples - All in all, this is one case where the supplements supplant the film they are supposed to enhance.
- I have also seen patternmaking techniques designed to fit the human body supplanted by techniques that maximize fabric usage and ease of production, giving us garments that fit no one properly.
- Most recent anime - and Hollywood movies, for that matter - continually generates two complaints: Style supplants substance and genre replaces originality.
- But this, in turn, is supplanted by the increasingly theoretical, increasingly subdivided abstraction for which she later became known in Paris.
- As we move on into the 16th century in Italy, so oil technique, mainly based on walnut oil, supplants egg tempera and the use of linseed oil becomes progressively more common.
- She says the representation is a prime example of how by the time we get to the end of the 1700s, the erotic image of the female nude was supplanted by images of the heroic male form.
- Science, by which he meant rational inquiry, would eventually supplant religion, he maintained, and guide the direction of human progress.
- The city of real buildings is being supplanted by a city of stalls and kiosks, a city made entirely of accretions.
- A couple of years ago the gurus of cyberspace routinely hailed the coming of a new era; a new time and space where our messy material world is supplemented and, in the end, supplanted by a new kind of virtual space.
- And he knows that the economic power of capitalism supplants the dictatorial power he envisions for himself.
- Small-scale, short-run production processes depending on multi-skilled labour were now supposedly supplanting the era of mass production, driven by new structures of diversified consumer demand and volatile economic conditions.
- I have no problem with comedians who use politics as the backbone of comedy; the problem comes when nastiness supplants humor.
- Larger versions, like the barrel organs and orchestrions, filled the same role as the gramophone, which superseded them, and has since been supplanted in its turn by the CD player.
- Class hierarchies based on wealth and power are briefly set aside, poverty is forgotten, men may dress as women, leisure supplants work, and the disparate components of Brazilian society blend in a dizzying blaze of color and music.
- This excellent and complete set easily supplants the opera version and stands with the original Broadway cast recording as a vivid reminder of one of the musical theatre's greatest composer-lyricist collaborations.
- Where movies rarely deal in any realistic way with the problems of work and family, these shows tell the modern story of the work-family supplanting the real-family.
- ‘They’ were robots, automated manufacturing equipment that was going to supplant human employment.
- In some organizations surveillance cameras, electronic pads, and sensors capable of detecting the most minute deviation from stipulated working methods have largely supplanted human supervisors.
- One reality supplants another as a drab home is replaced with opulent apartments and decadent parties.
Synonyms replace, displace, supersede, take the place of, take over from, substitute for, undermine, override oust, usurp, overthrow, remove, topple, unseat, depose, dethrone, eject, dispel succeed, come after, step into the shoes of informal fill someone's boots, crowd out, defenestrate
OriginMiddle English: from Old French supplanter or Latin supplantare 'trip up', from sub- 'from below' + planta 'sole'. This is from Old French supplanter or Latin supplantare ‘trip up’, from sub- ‘from below’ and planta ‘sole of the foot’. Initially the word could be used both in the modern sense and in the original Latin sense. Milton, in Paradise Lost was one of the last to do this ‘His Armes clung to his Ribs, his Leggs entwining Each other, till supplanted down he fell A monstrous Serpent.’
Rhymesaren't, aslant, aunt, can't, chant, courante, détente, enchant, entente, grant, implant, Nantes, plant, shan't, slant, transplant, underplant Definition of supplant in US English: supplantverbsəˈplæntsəˈplant [with object]Supersede and replace. 取代，代替 another discovery could supplant the original finding Example sentencesExamples - Small-scale, short-run production processes depending on multi-skilled labour were now supposedly supplanting the era of mass production, driven by new structures of diversified consumer demand and volatile economic conditions.
- I have no problem with comedians who use politics as the backbone of comedy; the problem comes when nastiness supplants humor.
- Class hierarchies based on wealth and power are briefly set aside, poverty is forgotten, men may dress as women, leisure supplants work, and the disparate components of Brazilian society blend in a dizzying blaze of color and music.
- I have also seen patternmaking techniques designed to fit the human body supplanted by techniques that maximize fabric usage and ease of production, giving us garments that fit no one properly.
- All in all, this is one case where the supplements supplant the film they are supposed to enhance.
- Science, by which he meant rational inquiry, would eventually supplant religion, he maintained, and guide the direction of human progress.
- The city of real buildings is being supplanted by a city of stalls and kiosks, a city made entirely of accretions.
- In some organizations surveillance cameras, electronic pads, and sensors capable of detecting the most minute deviation from stipulated working methods have largely supplanted human supervisors.
- And he knows that the economic power of capitalism supplants the dictatorial power he envisions for himself.
- ‘They’ were robots, automated manufacturing equipment that was going to supplant human employment.
- A couple of years ago the gurus of cyberspace routinely hailed the coming of a new era; a new time and space where our messy material world is supplemented and, in the end, supplanted by a new kind of virtual space.
- One reality supplants another as a drab home is replaced with opulent apartments and decadent parties.
- As we move on into the 16th century in Italy, so oil technique, mainly based on walnut oil, supplants egg tempera and the use of linseed oil becomes progressively more common.
- Where movies rarely deal in any realistic way with the problems of work and family, these shows tell the modern story of the work-family supplanting the real-family.
- Larger versions, like the barrel organs and orchestrions, filled the same role as the gramophone, which superseded them, and has since been supplanted in its turn by the CD player.
- She says the representation is a prime example of how by the time we get to the end of the 1700s, the erotic image of the female nude was supplanted by images of the heroic male form.
- This excellent and complete set easily supplants the opera version and stands with the original Broadway cast recording as a vivid reminder of one of the musical theatre's greatest composer-lyricist collaborations.
- Most recent anime - and Hollywood movies, for that matter - continually generates two complaints: Style supplants substance and genre replaces originality.
- But this, in turn, is supplanted by the increasingly theoretical, increasingly subdivided abstraction for which she later became known in Paris.
Synonyms replace, displace, supersede, take the place of, take over from, substitute for, undermine, override oust, usurp, overthrow, remove, topple, unseat, depose, dethrone, eject, dispel
OriginMiddle English: from Old French supplanter or Latin supplantare ‘trip up’, from sub- ‘from below’ + planta ‘sole’. |